(1) services/twitter/twitter-contact-view.c and (2) services/twitter/twitter-item-view.c in libsocialweb before 0.25.20 automatically…

Description

(1) services/twitter/twitter-contact-view.c and (2) services/twitter/twitter-item-view.c in libsocialweb before 0.25.20 automatically connect to Twitter when no Twitter account is set, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (5)

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752022 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://git.gnome.org/browse/libsocialweb/commit/?id=0086bfbfc07345438123a87957e0bc12226e2b94 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://git.gnome.org/browse/libsocialweb/commit/?id=8982cf504cf3767761fe85d9558beab3d9da5bec (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20111109 Re: CVE Request -- libsocialweb -- Untrusted connection opened to Twitter social service without user's approval upon service start via dbus (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20111109 CVE Request -- libsocialweb -- Untrusted connection opened to Twitter social service without user's approval upon service start via dbus (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 00:01 UTC.